Dan Tran
added a comment - 25/Jun/07 12:27 PM Attached is the diff with the zip and tar packages copied from
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/tags/ANT_170/src/main/org/apache/tools/
with package renamed to codehaus.
fixed:
2GB zip limitation, it now works with <4G. Still have limittation of 4GB but better
2GB tar file entry size limittable
Please see Ant's svn log for more details
I tested with 25 Gig tar

Lee Thompson
added a comment - 22/May/09 1:50 PM An alternative is "truezip". See the truezip-maven-plugin. Seems to be a much better archiver implementation than the ant implementation. Much much faster.

Kristian Rosenvold
added a comment - 01/Nov/13 1:06 PM We support 2GB archives, but I'm afraid the patch is horribly stale.
I think the proper fix for this solution is to switch to commons code for zip.